please empty your brain below
When I saw this I thought 'I will be passing through CX later'. Then I saw that there will be nothing visible on the platforms and I would have to break my journey to see it. Oh well, glad I don't drink vodka.

davews | 18.09.25 - 8:12 a.m. | #

Often critical of TfL service changes made to control costs, but also unwaveringly downbeat about their acceptance of advertising budget £££s for ludicrous temporary bolx. In either respect, your position could be regarded as Absolut-ist

Frank F | 18.09.25 - 8:53 a.m. | #

Personally, I don't mind when they change the platform level roundels and I don't think it poses as much of an accessibility risk as the detractors make out. It's fun and brings in extra revenue for TfL.

I think this one is great (and not as forced as some of the other tie-ins trying to wedge the brand name into the station name!), it's just a shame there's no platform level roundels to photograph. Person favourites have been 'Webminster' for AWS and Picardilly Circus for an Amazon TV show. Burberry Street was a bit forced, I'll concede.

tomb | 18.09.25 - 8:56 a.m. | #

I guess content creation for social media is now the priority over actual volume of human interactions for any pop-up.

Absolut was state owned until 2008 and I think their advertising was surprisingly creative for a government brand. They were also pro-LGBT before it was popular.

Just a pity I never* drink vodka!

*Underage parks and pre-invasion work trips to Moscow excluded

TomH | 18.09.25 - 9:11 a.m. | #

All that advertising and not one free bottle of vodka? Shame!

Scott | Homepage | 18.09.25 - 9:25 a.m. | #

There was a QR code on the wall so you could buy a bottle.

But it was £10 dearer than the price at duty-free.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 18.09.25 - 9:28 a.m. | #

Posters featuring strawberries and cream; 'no'(HFSS, boo!). Vodka marketing; 'yes' (potentially addictive and harmful, hurrah!). TFL policy makes no sense. Not for the first time

Also: what Frank F said.

Also; well amplified; Absolut will be pleased with you.

David B | 18.09.25 - 9:30 a.m. | #

All negative publicity is publicity, thanks.

Absolut | 18.09.25 - 9:49 a.m. | #

I am upset by the fact that the roundel doesn't line up with the tiles in the top picture.

In fact it's doing the wall-based equivalent of stepping on the cracks on the pavement.

James Matcham | 18.09.25 - 10:11 a.m. | #

A marketing campaign designed by people who weren't around in 1986 and aimed at who exactly?

Still Anon | 18.09.25 - 11:32 a.m. | #

Meh - I wouldn't have called Haring an 'artist'; more a 'commercial illustrator' who was brought down by his own Weimar-level degeneracy.

Eddie Willers | 18.09.25 - 12:59 p.m. | #

Haring's death was the result of complications from AIDS. He also rightly fought homophobia in all its forms.

For Clarity | 18.09.25 - 1:49 p.m. | #











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